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...have heard from my son and his friends that the food quality is going down,” one parent asked to laughter and scattered applause. “Is there anything you can do with discretionary funds from the presidential fund....They’re getting pasta every day. They can’t even stomach it.”Faust avoided mention of discretionary funds in her response and instead spoke of a trade-off between keeping tuition costs down and reacting to higher food prices.“If we’re going to keep food...
...certain recent lunch featured a depressing amount of starch. Two kinds of fries. Two kinds of pasta. A chicken and cheese sandwich. Brown rice and more pasta at the pasta bar. The change hasn’t gone unnoticed. The mumbling I’ve overheard lately goes above and beyond the usual mid-winter Massachusetts where’s-my-fresh-fruit blues. House open lists are flooded with anti-Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) rants: “It is THEIR [HUDS’] responsibility to get the funding they need to produce adequate meals...
...dining halls for the past month, you’ve probably noticed something afoot. Food items have started to vanish. Thigh meat has replaced breast meat in chicken dishes. Wedge tomatoes have been added to substitute the cherry tomatoes. White batter products have replaced whole-grain waffle batter and pasta. In response to higher food prices, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) has begun to phase out several menu items in favor of cheaper, less healthful alternatives. Given the way that HUDS’ budget is determined, its constraints are understandable. The board rate is negotiated in the winter prior...
Besides “swapping,” HUDS has added an additional pasta option at many lunches and dinners...
Martin said that although it may seem contradictory to add food to save money, the chefs use leftover ingredients—“not leftover foods, but their components”—to create pasta dishes that are cheaper than some of the other entree options...